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| Sep 18, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | To add to this, at some point it's just too cumbersome to keep a big project secret. When you have several wings of F-22's with hundreds of pilots being assigned to them, along with thousands of other support troops, keeping that sort of a program secret is a massive undertaking. It might be possible to operate them the way that the F-117's did (early on), only at night & only where they were never visible to the "outside world," but it would be incredibly expensive and would impose severe limitations on how the pilots could train. At some point, the secrecy isn't worth the costs. | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 0:33 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |